Word: prescott
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Viereck has been called by Robert Frost "the present hope of poetry." His latest book, however, was criticized by critic Orville Prescott as "in many of its arguments . . . dogmatically and belligerently controversial...
...nearly 1,000 shoestring air-cargo lines started by ex-service airmen after World War II, only a handful survived. Last week the two biggest survivors, Robert W. Prescott's Flying Tiger Line, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 5, 1945 et seq.) and Tom and Earl Slick's Slick Airways, Inc. (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946 et seq.), decided to cut the number still more by merging...
...Airways, capitalized at $13 million, will exchange a half share of Tiger common (last week's price: about 9⅞ a share) and one share of a new issue of 5½% convertible preferred for each share of Slick common, selling around 8. Tiger's President Bob Prescott will run the new company, with Slick President Tom Grace as executive vice president. The two lines, which last year flew a combined total of no million ton-miles (46% of all freight flown in the U.S.), say the merger will make them the world's biggest air-freight...
...Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Vivid, fictional chronicle of 16th century Yorkshire (TIME, Sept...
...Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Vivid, fictional chronicle of the 16th century Yorkshire rising against Henry VIII (TIME, Sept...